“This country has over 300 million human beings and we elected someone who really might be in the bottom 20 or 30 (not percent).”
-Isaac Chotiner
Category Archives: Thought for the Day
Thought for the Day – October 3, 2020
Thought for the Day: September 26, 2020
“It’s The Devil’s Darwin who would kill off people who sing together.”
Thought for the Day: September 7, 2020
Northeastern dismissed 11 students the other day for violating COVID-19 social distancing rules. The university dismissed them but kept their $36,500 tuition. The elephant is the room is how did private university come to cost $50k/year (tuition plus other expenses)? That’s a discussion in and of itself but, given that the cost is what it is, is it worth it following COVID-related changes, i.e., on-line learning, reduced interaction and limited access to campus facilities, etc.? Continue reading
Thought for the Day: September 2, 2020
“The 21st century will be marked by an extraordinary conflict between the assumptions of neoclassical economists and the empirical realities of the physical sciences.”
Thought for the Day: July 31, 2020
“The earth, the kind and equal mother of all ought not to be monopolised to foster the pride and luxury of any men.”
-Edmund Burke
Thought for the Day – March 19, 2019
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
-Matthew 25:35-40
Thought for the Day – October 29, 2018
“I am still embedded, at least partly because I can’t work out where to jump, or what to land on, or whether you can ever get away by jumping, or simply because I’m frightened to close my eyes and walk over the edge”
Thought for the Day – July 28, 2018
It’s especially important to press these priorities of security and solidarity now, when the share of US GDP going to profit has increased since 1984 from 2% to 16%–a difference totaling $17,000 per US worker. Wealth is jointly produced; well-being should be jointly achieved. https://t.co/eWSDDIMKs0
— Jedediah Purdy (@JedediahSPurdy) July 27, 2018
Distributive bargaining vs Integrative bargaining
Integrative bargaining is good, distributive bargaining is not. Guess which kind of bargainer Trump is? (This is a really sharp take by David Honing.)
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